Two grenades found in housing complex<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Duren Sawit Police detectives are currently
\nquizzing five men after two live grenades and a smoke bomb were
\nfound in a community unit (RW) office in the Billy Moon housing
\ncomplex, Pondok Kelapa, East Jakarta, where one of the five men
\nnormally resides.<\/p>\n
Duren Sawit police subprecinct chief Comr. Listiyo Sigit
\nidentified the person who normally lived in the office where the
\ngrenades were found as Abdullah, alias Memeh, 34, a security
\nguard in the housing complex.<\/p>\n
The homemade grenades and the smoke bomb, which was produced
\nby state munitions manufacturer PT Pindad, were found in the
\noffice of community unit (RW) 10, Pondok Kelapa.<\/p>\n
\"Residents of Billy Moon complex have long resented the
\nactivities of Abdullah and his friends, who spend their days
\ngetting drunk and extorting money from motorcycle taxi drivers.
\nThey are really sick of Abdullah and his friends,\" Listiyo told
\nreporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
According to Listiyo, the angry residents stormed the RW 10
\nsecretariat at 12 p.m. on Wednesday and found four men very drunk
\nthere. Abdullah, however, was not present, the police officer
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
\"The enraged residents, armed both with sharp and blunt
\nweapons, attacked the four men viciously and beat them until they
\nwere rendered helpless. Meanwhile, other residents who were not
\ninvolved in the fray contacted Duren Sawit police officers, who
\narrived at the scene and tried to calm the residents down.\"<\/p>\n
Once the residents had been calmed, they informed the police
\nthat the men were also often involved in drugs.<\/p>\n
The police then conducted a search during which the grenades
\nand the smoke bomb were found in one of the cupboards in the
\noffice<\/p>\n
Abdullah's friends were rushed to the hospital for medical
\ntreatment.<\/p>\n
A hand grenade thrown by a passerby, who may have been
\ntraveling on foot or in a vehicle, exploded on Sunday evening
\nunder the Mampang Prapatan flyover in South Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Last Wednesday, a hand grenade exploded under the Slipi
\nflyover in West Jakarta. In this incident, one man eventually
\ndied of blast injuries.<\/p>\n
Police have yet to link the grenades found on Wednesday in
\nDuren Sawit to the flyover blasts.<\/p>\n
Despite the blasts, the police have yet to put flyovers on
\ntheir list of security priority areas.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday evening, a small explosion at a minivan depot
\nshocked residents of the Gudang Peluru Complex in South Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Police later said that the explosion was caused by someone who
\nhad put firecrackers in an empty glass bottle. (ylt)<\/p>",
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